20th Century Blog

Vietnam POW/MIAs the POW stands for prisoners of war. They were captured by the North Vietnamese Army. MIA stands for missing in action. This is talking about people who were killed in war or lost and even found. So they made this group to show that they will even be for gotten in the eyes of Americans. This was just one of the ways we showed that we cared about our troops in the Vietnam War.

This is a picture of Pow/Mia bracelets. They were made for people who wanted to show that they cared about the people in the war. They had the name of a missing or captured person in the war. This was popular with the younger crowd. For example kids in middle and high school would have them because they thought it was cool. But that’s not the only reason they got them some got them to show that they didn’t want the war to be happing but they do still care for the troops.

There are people who still have no idea if there son is alive, living in Vietnam or if they are dead but most likely they are not alive anymore. There were cases of people who thought they were not going to make it there and just quit in the war to live in South Vietnam with the locals. There may still be former soldiers over there just living their life. They would do this because they didn’t think they could take the war anymore so they would simply leave the military and go off to live there. Others couldn’t handle the pressure of the war so they used of drugs, beer and other stuff. That’s what the war can do to you.

Rock n roll is a mix of country and jazz and blues. This music became very popular. There where a lot of artist who made the music popular. They were starting to have concert and everyone wanted to come. On March 21, 1952, the first rock and roll concert was held at the Cleveland Arena. This first show caused a riot as 30,000 people tried to sit in an arena that could only seat 10,000 people. Still 15,000 people waited on the streets outside.

Top Hit
Number
1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
2. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
3. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
4. Tutti-Frutti - Little Richard
5. Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
6. What'd I Say - Ray Charles
7. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
8. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
9. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
10. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly & the Crickets
11. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
12. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
13. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner
14. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
15. Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

Born January 8, 1935 at 4:35 AM in a two room house in Tupelo, Mississippi. The family moves to Memphis in 1948. It is estimated that Elvis Presley has sold over one billion record units worldwide, more than anyone in record industry history. Elvis received 14 Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). His three wins were for gospel recordings - the album How Great Thou Art (1967), the album He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971, NARAS also recognized him with their Lifetime Achievement Award (known then as the Bing Crosby Award in honor of its first recipient). Elvis was 36 years old at the time. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he traveled in an open top car in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. On November 22, 1963, Texas Governor John Connally was also injured. Within two hours Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of a Dallas policeman and by that evening, he was arraigned on a charge of murder in the death of officer J. D. Tippit. At 1:35 the following morning, Oswald was arraigned on the charge of murdering the President. On November 24, 1963, while being transferred from the Dallas Police Department to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that there was no persuasive evidence that Oswald was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the President, and stated it was their belief that he acted alone. Critics, even before the publication of the official government conclusions, suggested a conspiracy was behind the assassination.

In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, but found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired, that there was a "high probability" that two gunmen fired at the President, and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. The HSCA also stated that “the Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.”

Polls have indicated that large numbers of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. These same polls also show that there is no agreement on who else may have been involved. A 2003 ABC News poll found that 70% of respondents suspected there was an assassination plot involving more than one person. A 2004 Fox News poll found that 66% of Americans thought there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought there had been a cover-up.